About
I'm a software engineer with 22 years of experience building systems that have to work — safety-critical utility platforms, financial software serving hundreds of institutions, and privacy-focused SaaS infrastructure I designed and built from the ground up.
At Sho-Me Power Electric Cooperative, I'm the primary developer behind internal tools that dispatchers and field crews rely on to coordinate high-voltage work safely. I've built applications spanning safety, education, GIS, weather tracking, and community outreach — integrating SCADA telemetry, metering systems, and weather APIs into real-time dashboards that support grid reliability. It's a small team where I own problems end-to-end, from requirements through delivery and long-term support.
Before that, I spent 13 years at Jack Henry & Associates leading a team responsible for customer-specific enhancements across a core banking platform used by hundreds of financial institutions. I owned delivery and technical direction in a high-audit regulatory environment — coordinating developers, QA, and business analysts to ship changes where errors had real compliance consequences.
On my own time, I founded Redoubt Systems — a multi-tenant SaaS platform that provisions fully isolated, encrypted communication infrastructure through automated pipelines. It's the kind of project that pulls together everything I've learned about infrastructure, security, and building systems that hold up under real use.
Two decades across energy and finance have taught me that precision, accountability, and operational resilience aren't optional — they're the baseline.
When I'm not writing code, I'm homesteading 20 acres in Missouri or forging steel — software, land, and iron all reward the same things: patience, iteration, and building the tools you need.
Experience
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2025 — Present
Redoubt Systems | Founder & Platform Architect
Designed and built a multi-tenant SaaS platform end-to-end — billing integration, infrastructure automation, per-tenant provisioning, server hardening, and marketing site. Event-driven orchestration pipelines automatically provision isolated, containerized Matrix/Synapse environments from Stripe payment through running deployment. Currently in early access with live tenants.
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2018 — Present
Sho-Me Power Electric Cooperative | Software Engineer
Building full-stack applications for engineering and field operations at a high-voltage electric cooperative where software reliability directly impacts worker safety. Architected the Clearance Order application — a safety-critical system used by 8 dispatchers and 17 field crews that replaced a paper-based workflow with auditable, metrics-driven oversight. Built and maintained full-stack applications across safety, education, GIS, weather tracking, and community outreach. Integrated SCADA telemetry, metering systems, lightning detection, and weather APIs into real-time operational dashboards. Prototyped ML.NET load forecasting for grid capacity planning. Own problems end-to-end in a small team spanning engineering, IT, and field operations.
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2005 — 2018
Jack Henry & Associates | Programmer Analyst Coordinator
Owned delivery and technical direction for customer-specific enhancements across a highly customized core banking platform used by hundreds of financial institutions. Led a team of four — coordinating developers, QA, and business analysts to scope, implement, and validate changes in a high-audit regulatory environment. Designed internal tooling to track client-specific logic across releases, significantly reducing regression risk during upgrades. Led development of a tax form volume estimator that saved thousands annually by aligning with federal reporting requirements and eliminating costly over-ordering. Championed defensible data modeling in systems subject to frequent regulatory change.
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2003 — 2005
Top Shelf Systems | Software Developer
Supported development and maintenance of retail point-of-sale software for hardware and lumber supply clients. Contributed to feature enhancements, data conversion tools for new client onboarding, and internal utilities for issue tracking and prioritization.
Projects
Redoubt Systems
Privacy-First Communication Platform — Early Access
A multi-tenant SaaS platform providing isolated, privacy-first communication infrastructure. Each tenant gets a containerized Matrix/Synapse deployment with end-to-end encryption, provisioned automatically through an event-driven pipeline: Stripe payment triggers orchestration, Ansible configures the environment, and the tenant is live with reverse proxy routing, automated TLS, and full API-driven lifecycle management. Supports privacy-enhanced networking through Tor hidden services and WireGuard tunnels, with LiveKit and Coturn for real-time voice and video. Currently serving live tenants in early access.
Self-Hosted Collaboration Stack
Deployed and maintained a secure Rocket.Chat instance on DigitalOcean infrastructure. Configured containerized services with reverse proxy, TLS termination, and persistent storage to support real-time collaboration for a distributed team.